I’ve lost a recent iPad backup from iTunes. Not of huge significance, but it is a worry.
I upgraded my iPad 2 to iOS 8.0.2 around October 2nd. I followed Ronni’s advice to “Prepare for iOS the Correct Way”, including an iTunes backup (but not an iCloud copy). iTunes is ver 11.4. Today I went to iTunes to check what version of Pages I had (not a Beta!) but the iPad was not listed under Devices. I eventually did an iPad Restart - and the iPad then displayed in iTunes. Backup files were listed in the Preferences/Devices list. All seemed OK so I did a manual backup to iTunes OTA, just in case. But the backup dated 2 October has now disappeared. Two earlier backup files remain available - yes, only two. Does iTunes only keep limited backups, or just one backup copy per iOS version? Some months ago I restored an iPhone from its backup and didn’t notice anything unusual. I note the iPhone only has 3 historical backups too (but has not been upgraded to iOS 8). Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2012 iMac 27" Intel Quad Core i5 Fusion 3.2GHz 8G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 Late 2009 iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 iPhone5; iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
